Carlos Muñoz

Carlos Muñoz is GlogauAIR resident
from April, 2023 to June, 2023

Carlos Muñoz is an artist driven by a deep desire to capture the density and texture of his work, employs a combination of techniques to create a multi-dimensional experience that engages viewers from various angles. His artistic explorations delve into themes of emotional depth and philosophical dichotomies, such as emptiness versus fullness, linear versus non-linear perspectives, and meditation versus confrontation.

Meet the Artist

Currently, the artist is developing a body of work inspired by shapes found in nature, transformed to express various human processes and create a “place” for reflection beyond simplistic dichotomies. The artist’s project during the residency at GlogauAIR will focus on creating allegories that represent generational trauma, family, metanarratives, and evolutionary consciousness from a personal perspective, exploring how wounds passed down through generations can eventually heal over time.

Statement

My work stems from the need to be able to capture density and texture, in a way that fuses techniques, seeking three-dimensionality with a sensation of weight and rigidity that absorbs the viewer and allows them to have different views of the work, not just a linear one, but to explore these textures from different angles.

I seek to “enter the abyss”, an emotional space, filled in dichotomies e.g. from emptiness/ fullness, linear/ non-linear perspectives, to meditation/confrontation through painting and sculpture. Recently my work develops narratives that go beyond the oneness, like collective and historical trauma, for example family and heritage, ecocidal dichotomy, anthropocentrism, and coloniality.

Carlos Muñoz

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GlogauAIR Project

Currently, I am developing a body of work that originates in the shapes found in nature and how they can be transformed until they are far from their own nature, with this I seek to make allegories that can express different human processes and together create a “place” of reflection and contemplation beyond the dichotomy of good and bad.

I would like to take these shapes and go beyond myself. My project is about making a story about generational trauma, family, metanarratives and evolutionary consciousness through different allegories that represent from my personal perspective how wounds that are passed from generation to generation eventually, in time, begin to heal.

New media, Painting, Photography, and Sculpture

CV Summary

EDUCATION

2013- 2017 Faculty of Arts and Design – National Autonomous University of Mexico
Bachelor’s degree in design and visual communication
2018 San Carlos Academy – National Autonomous University of Mexico
Diploma in web design, mobile design, community manager and apps for iOS
2019-2020 BAU, Center Universitari de Disseny de Barcelona
Master in Creative Illustration, Digital illustration and new media
2023 Sculpture Workshop- INBAL National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda”.

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